(3 Jan 2025)
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Saydnaya, Syria – 3 January 2025
1. Various of French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot entering Saydnaya prison
2. Various of Barrot touring prison
3. Various of Barrot with members of the White Helmets, civil defence and medical group, inside prison
4. Barrot speaking with White Helmets rescuer UPSOUND No name given, Helmets rescuer (English): “Please what you have seen it is now your responsibility to move this message internationally. We have calling for these cells, these detainees files for 13 years and we lost lives. Please help the people that lost their beloved ones, get the message done, get the justice and accountability across.”
5. Barrot leaving prison
6. Barrot getting in car
STORYLINE:
France’s Foreign Minister, Jean-Noel Barrot, visited the notorious Saydnaya prison on the outskirts of Damascus during his visit to Syria on Friday.
Barrot toured the prison and was shown around cells by members of the White Helmets, a Syrian civil defence and medical group.
Saydnaya Prison has become synonymous with some of the worst atrocities committed under the rule of now ousted President Bashar Assad.
Thousands of people are believed to have died within its walls, executed or tortured to death.
During the tour, one White Helmets rescuer, who did not give her, name urged Barrot to “help the people that lost their beloved ones".
Barrot and along with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock arrived in Damascus on Friday, marking the first official visit to Syria by top diplomats from European Union countries after the fall of Assad in a lightning offensive by opposition forces.
Damascus has experienced a flurry of visits from Arab and Western countries that had cut off relations with Assad’s government during the country’s nearly 14-year civil war since Assad’s fall.
However, Western countries have so far not lifted sanctions placed on Syria under Assad or removed the designation of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) as a terrorist group, although the United States lifted a $10 million bounty it had previously placed on Ahmad al-Sharaa.
AP video shot by Omar Sanadiki
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